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Highlights

Admire the Vatican Gardens fountains and sculptures

Learn how the gardens and parks were established

Drive past the Radio Vatican and the Governor's Palace

Full description

Take a 45-minute tour of the Vatican Gardens, aboard an eco-friendly open bus. Sit back and comfortably admire the greenery of the private urban gardens and parks, which cover more than half of the Vatican country.

Learn how the gardens and parks were established during the Renaissance and Baroque era and see how it is beautifully decorated with fountains and sculptures.

Drive around the garden grounds covering approximately 23 hectares (57 acres) and admire historic buildings such as Radio Vatican and the Governor's Palace.

Prepare for the activity

• All visitors must pass through airport-style security. During high season the wait at security may be up to 30 minutes
• Please observe the strict dress code of no shorts or sleeveless shirts
• The tour is not available for children under the age of 6 years
• Please note that the museum's hours may change due to special events at the Vatican Museums, Sistine Chapel, and St Peter's Basilica
• St. Peter’s Basilica and the Square may be closed in the morning due to the Papal Audience

Overall rating

4.4 / 5

based on 203 reviews

Review summary

Service

4.4 / 5

Organization

4.2 / 5

Value for money

4.1 / 5

Safety

4.6 / 5

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For the Vatican, skip-the-line ticket is a must. The ticket lines are insane but with this tour ticket I could walk right in. Enter from the museum access entrance. Do not wait in the line, just go to the entrance and show your voucher to the guard and they will let you in. After the security check you enter a hall, there is a tour desk on the opposite side of it. Go there and show your voucher, they will give you a ticket and tell you the meeting point for your tour. The meeting point will be right next to the desk. You will be picked up for the bus tour from there. There are also toilets if you need one before the tour. Bus tour is fun and audio guide good. Interesting experience as Vatican is chaos but the gardens are not, there are very few people there. After the bus tour you are just left to the museums (inside). It was a bit hard to know where to go, there was no map given, and the museum is HUGE with literally thousands of people.

Beautiful bus ride

We took the 09.45-ride, which was perfect (late June). There wasn’t really any queue, and it was easy to find. You definitely have to buy tickets in advance, if you don’t want to wait in a queue in the sun!
The bus ride was really beautiful, and personally I think it’s a must when visiting the museums :-)

June 27, 2019

Reviewed by
Camilla
– Denmark

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No Guide for Museum

An audio guide was provided on the bus for the garden tour. Nothing was provided for the museum, other than the skip the line ticket. Purchased a worthless audio guide in the museum. After the first gallery, we couldn't find the codes listed anywhere. The codes on the gallery name plates were for different audio guide systems. BTW the gallery names on the name plates didn't match those on the audio guide map, except for the Sistine Chapel. Still worth the cost just to skip the line.